Centuries before photography froze the world into neat frames, scientists, poets, and artists streamed transient images into dark interior spaces with the help of a camera obscura. Julie Park explores the early modern fascination with this quasi-spiritual technology and the magic, melancholy, and dream-like experiences it produced.
— Read on publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-early-modern-camera-obscura/
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura — The Public Domain Review
Posted: July 31, 2025 in My Weekly Reader, UncategorizedTags: from Public Domain Review
sometimes it is true
Posted: January 20, 2025 in PIC o' the Crop, Selected Photography Over the Years, Uncategorizeda picture is worth a thousand words
The framework of American education holds fast to the ardent but mistaken belief that education is a commodity, the stuff that one pours into empty vessels.
— Read on www.laphamsquarterly.org/ways-learning/playing-fire/
very apt treatment of a controversial issue
A great Lewis Hyde Essay
Posted: September 24, 2023 in My Weekly Reader, Observations of Nature, Readings, UncategorizedFound this old photo while digging for a few to post.
Posted: September 16, 2023 in Selected Photography Over the Years
And there it is….at the time I was taking this photo, it seemed “timely” as I just didn’t have a sense of balance and needed reminding that Happiness lies between More Than You Need and Needing More Than You Have
So last week I played segments of this very rare CD (10 of 30) on my radio show….I guess someone really wanted it…it was stolen from my home in less than 2 days….some people just aren’t “people”
This photo got all sorts of bad attention last time. Methinks I was having my data harvested. I had reported it stolen and I guess some folks resented the concept that walking into someone’s home and grabbing property should be considered “theft”. Moral Compasses have been abandoned.
The End of an Educated Populace?
Posted: September 6, 2023 in PIC o' the Crop, Selected Photography Over the YearsTags: education, libraries
So perhaps you have noticed the sacking and burning of liberal education by way of “course corrections” in the hallowed halls of academe? Back in 2018, the University of Maine at Farmington decided there were too many books in Mantor Library. Step One in Making America Dumb
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